Hat-box.



R. M. BORRELLI.

HAT BOX'.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1914.

Patented Apr. 25,1916.

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ROSA MARIA BORBELLI, OF ST. JAMES, NEW YORK.

HAT-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1916..

Application filed June 15, 1914. Serial No. 845,158.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, ROSA MARIA Bon- RELLI, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. James, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented oer-- tain new and useful Improvements in flat Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hat boxes, de signed more particularly for use on clothes press shelves, but capable of uses in other relations, and one of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a hat box which can be opened and closed without removing the box from a shelf in a closet, and which is designed more particularly for containing ladies hats or bonnets.

Hat boxes as usually constructed are pro vided with a cover which can not be removed until the hat box has been lifted off the shelf and placed on some support in order to remove the hat or bonnet therefrom. These hat boxes are very large and are very inconvenient to handle, and it is very annoying to reach a hat box on a high shelf in a closet and place it on a support in order to open it and remove the hat from the box and then recover the box and place it back on the shelf.

The principal object of my invention is to overcome the annoyance referred to and to provide a hat box which need not be removed from the shelf in order to open the same and to remove a hat therefrom and to close the box after the hat has been removed.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hat box made in accordance with this invention and shown opened and resting upon a shelf, Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows, Fig. 3 is a rear end elevation of the box, and Fig. 4 is a front end elevation showing the box closed.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates generally a hat box. made in accordance with this invention and comprising a top 2, a bottom 3, sides 4, a back 5, and a cover 6. This box may be made of any suitable sheet material and is adapted to rest upon the shelf 7 permanently, that is to say, it is not intended to be removed when a hat is to be taken out of the box or placed therein. A cord or tape 8 is doubled upon itself and extended through an eyelet 9 at the lower edge of the cover 6, said cord extending in two strands across the bottom of the box and said cord strands emerge through the eyelet holes 10 in the back 5 of the box. The strands then extend across on an inclined line at the back 5 and extend up through eyes or staples 11 at the opposite sides outside the box, and from the eyes 11 in an inclined direction through holes 12 near the corners of the cover 6, as shown more clearly in Figs. 2 and 4. After the cord is passed through the holes 12 they are brought together at a central point near the upper edge of the cover 6 and are united or tied into a knot 13 thus leaving two depending ends of the cord 8 to provide pulls a and b. The cover 6 may be connected to the box in any suitable manner but is preferably connected by hinges c which operate by springs to normally close the cover 6.

The manner of operating the box may be briefly described as follows: When the box is opened, as shown in Fig. 1, and the hat has been removed by pulling upon the cord or tape 8 at the point a, the cover 6 will be closed to the position shown in Fig. l. When it is desired to open the cover 6, the pull 7) is used and the cover is thrown down in the position shown in Fig. 1 after which the hat may be readily removed and the pull a grasped to throw the cover up in to the position shown in Fig. 4-. In order to make a secure fastening the ends a and b may be tied.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a hat box made in accordance with this invention may be placed upon a shelf and that the contents of the box may be removed without taking the box from the shelf.

Slight changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claim.

What is claimed is 2-- A hat box comprising a top and bottom wall, side members secured to the top and bottom walls and back wall, and a hinged cover, said back wall having an aperture adjacent one of its edges intermediate its side ends, said hinged cover provided with a plurality of openings, one of said open-- ings adjacent its lower hinged end and positioned between the openings, other openings are disposed in opposite corners of the free end of said cover, the side members of said box being provided with staples, a flexible tying element doubled and knotted and placed through the opening of the cover extending rearwardly through the opening in the back wall and divided and extending backwardly on opposite sides through the staples of the side members and out through the opening in the free ends of the cover and extending outwardly for a short dis- Gopies of this potent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the tanee providing means whereby the said 10 'cover can be opened or closed without removing the box from a shelf.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROSA MARIA BORRELLI. Witnesses:

CANo BORRELLI, MARY AMEY.

Commissioner of Patentl.

Washington, D. 0. 

